Classroom Struggle: Vision – Platform – Strategy
VISION
We are Oakland parents, students, teachers and school workers who are organizing for the defense and transformation of our public schools. We are fighting for the public schools that students and communities deserve. These are public schools that are fully-funded, safe, democratically controlled, and committed to supporting every student to develop their full potential as creative, intelligent and caring human beings.
- We need schools that are fully-funded in order to support the full development and potential of each student, teacher, and our communities. Instead of budget cuts, bare bones funding and concentration of resources at the top, we need to fight for new sources of school funding and democratic control of resources.
- We believe curriculum should be deeply meaningful to students’ lives through a holistic approach to education that supports the self-actualization of young people, and gives us the skills we need to both to survive within capitalism and to overthrow it. We vigorously oppose “reforms” that track students, standardize our education and turn us into data points.
- We understand that in order for students to learn they need to feel safe. We foster safe schools through the development of the social and emotional supports students need to forge a path outside of the violence that surrounds us, as well as through struggle against the violence waged by the state and owning class against working class, oppressed groups and political dissidents and struggle to shift the violence internalized in our communities.
- We need democratically controlled schools where decisions are made by the people who use and run them: teachers, parents, school workers, students.
PLATFORM
We believe the following changes could move us toward this vision:
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